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DESCRIPTION:Glen Cove, an American Indian burial and ceremonial site, needs your 
 protection NOW!\n\n Sacred Site Protection & Rights of Indigenous Tribes 
 (SSP&RIT)\n\nFor Immediate Release:\n\nContact:  Norman “Wounded Knee” 
 Deocampo 707-373-7195\n\n                  Corrina Gould 510-575-8408  * 
 Mark Anquoe (415) 680 0110  * Morning Star Gali (510) 827 6719\n\n          
                              As Bulldozers May Arrive Any Day at Ancient 
 Burial Site,\n\n                            Native Americans To Occupy 
 Sacred Land at Glen Cove in Vallejo\n\n                 Spiritual Ceremony 
 and Occupation Beginning Friday, April 15, 2011 at 8 am\n\n \nVallejo, 
 California (April 14, 2011) – Faced with the imminent arrival of 
 bulldozers at the Native American sacred burial site at Glen Cove, Vallejo, 
 members of the local Native American community will hold a religious 
 ceremony to commence an occupation of Sogorea Te, otherwise known as Glen 
 Cove, in the City of Vallejo beginning at 8 am on Friday, April 15, 2011. 
 Native Americans and their supporters have vowed to physically block 
 bulldozers or any other work that would desecrate the burial 
 site.\n\nNative American activists consider this to be the last stand in a 
 struggle that has been going on for over a decade, since the Greater 
 Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD) first proposed plans for a “fully 
 featured public park” including construction of a paved parking lot, 
 paved hiking trails, 1000 pound picnic tables and a public restroom on top 
 of the 3500 year old burial site.\n\nOn Wednesday, April 13th, Sacred Site 
 Protection and Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT), a Vallejo-based 
 community organization, filed an administrative civil rights complaint to 
 the State of California alleging that the City and GVRD are discriminating 
 on the basis of race in threatening to destroy and desecrate significant 
 parts of the Glen Cove Shellmound and burial site, for harming Native 
 Americans’ religious and spiritual well-being, and effectively excluding 
 Native Americans from their right to full participation in decision-making 
 regarding the site.\n\nThe history and cultural value of the site has never 
 been disputed. Human remains have been consistently unearthed as the area 
 around the site has been developed.  Native Americans continue to hold 
 ceremonies at Sogorea Te just as they have for thousands of years. The Glen 
 Cove Shell Mound spans fifteen acres along the Carquinez Strait.  It is the 
 final resting place of many Indigenous People dating back more than 3,500 
 years, and has served as a traditional meeting place for dozens of 
 California Indian tribes.  The site continues to be spiritually important 
 to California tribes. The Glen Cove site is acknowledged by GVRD and the 
 City to have many burials and to be an important cultural site, yet they 
 are moving forward as early as Friday with plans to build a toilet and 
 parking lot on this sacred site and to grade a hill that likely contains 
 human remains and important cultural artifacts. \n\nSSP&RIT have asked GVRD 
 to reconsider their plans to grade the hill and build toilets and a parking 
 lot at the site.\n\nGlen Cove is located near the intersection of South 
 Regatta and Whitesides Drive in Vallejo.\n\nFor more information and 
 directions: www.protectglencove.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/14/18677155.php
SUMMARY:Native American Ceremony to Begin Occupation of Ancient Burial Site to Prevent Desecration
LOCATION:Glen Cove is located near the intersection of South Regatta and Whitesides 
 Drive in Vallejo.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/14/18677155.php
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